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|blank_name = FIPS code |blank_info = 53-67000 |blank1_name = GNIS feature ID |blank1_info = 1512683 |website = (www.spokanecity.org ) |footnotes = }} Spokane ( ) is a city in the state of Washington, in the northwestern United States. It is the seat of Spokane County. It is located on the Spokane River west of the Rocky Mountain foothills in eastern Washington, south of the Canadian border, approximately from the Washington–Idaho border, and east of Seattle along Interstate 90. The city and wider Inland Northwest region is served by Spokane International Airport, west of downtown Spokane. According to the 2010 Census, Spokane had a population of 208,916, making it the second largest city in Washington and the 102nd largest city in the United States. The first humans to live in the area, the Spokane people (their name meaning "children of the sun" in Salishan), arrived between 13,000 and 8,000 years ago, living off plentiful game. Known as the birthplace of Father's Day, Spokane is officially nicknamed the "Lilac City". David Thompson explored the area with the westward expansion and establishment of the North West Company's Spokane House in 1810. This trading post was the first long-term European settlement in Washington. Completion of the Northern Pacific Railway in 1881 brought settlers to the Spokane area, and that same year it was officially incorporated as a city with the name "Spokan Falls". The "e" was added to Spokane in 1883, and "Falls" was dropped in 1891. In the late 19th century, gold and silver were discovered in the Inland Northwest. The local economy depended on mining, timber, and agriculture until the 1980s. Spokane hosted the first environmentally themed World's Fair at Expo '74. Many of the older Romanesque Revival-style buildings in the downtown area were designed by architect Kirtland Kelsey Cutter after the Great Fire of 1889. The city also features Riverfront and Manito parks, the Smithsonian-affiliated Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture, the Davenport Hotel, and the Fox and Bing Crosby theaters. The Cathedral of Our Lady of Lourdes serves as the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Spokane with Thomas Daly as the newly appointed Bishop as of 2015. The city is also the center of the Mormon Spokane Washington Temple District. Gonzaga University was established in 1887 by the Society of Jesus, and the private Presbyterian Whitworth University moved to north Spokane in 1914 from Tacoma, WA.〔Whitworth College Annual 1914, History of Whitworth College, DONALD D. McKAY, President,page 8. http://cdm16004.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15238coll1/id/464〕 In sports, the Gonzaga Bulldogs collegiate basketball team competes at the Division I level. Professional and semi-professional sports teams include the Spokane Indians in Minor League Baseball, Spokane Shock in arena football, and Spokane Chiefs in junior ice hockey. As of 2010, Spokane's only major daily newspaper, ''The Spokesman-Review'', had a daily circulation of over 75,000. ==History== The first humans to live in the Spokane area arrived between 13,000 and 8,000 years ago and were hunter-gatherer societies that lived off plentiful game.〔Ruby et al. (2006), p. 5〕 The Spokane tribe, after which the city is named (the name meaning "children of the stars" or "star people" in Salishan),〔Phillips (1971), pp. 134–135〕〔Ruby et al. (2006), pp. 7–8〕 are believed to be either their direct descendants, or descendants of people from the Great Plains.〔Ruby et al. (2006), pp. 5–6〕 When asked by early white explorers, the Spokanes said their ancestors came from "up North".〔 Early in the 19th century, the Northwest Fur Company sent two white fur trappers west of the Rocky Mountains to search for fur.〔Ruby et al. (2006), p. 34〕 These were the first white men met by the Spokanes, who believed they were sacred, and set the trappers up in the Colville River valley for the winter.〔Ruby et al. (2006), p. 35〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Spokane, Washington」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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